Brickmaking machine



Feb. 20, 1923. 1,446,330 A. BOOTRYM BRICKMAKING MACHINE Filed June 26, 1922 I Q 39 I I Q I INVENTOR. WIIWWZWM diam 5 00 6711 71? A TTORNE Y.

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ADAM: BOOTRYJNI, OF SCRAN'I'ON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN OF QCBANTON, IPENNSYLVANML BRICKZEMXKING ItIZLCHINE.

Application filed June 26, 1922. Serial No. 570,840.

To ((-71 107mm it may concern:

:ie it known that 1., 11mm BOWPR-YM, a citizen of Poland, residing at Scranton, county of Lackawanna, and State i Fennsylvania. have invented certain new and useful Tniproveu'ients in Brickmakiug lit lachines, of which the following is a cification.

This invention relates to improvements in brick shaping and cutting apparatus, and it is the principal object of my invention to provide an apparatus ofthis type in which the previously shaped material is drawn out of the shaper andcut simultaneously into a plurality of bricks.

Another object of the invention is the pro.- vision of an apparatus for dividing plastic material into a plurality of bricks while the material is kept moist during the several steps of the shaping, drawing out and cutting operations.

These and other like objects of the invention are attained by the novel construc tion and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my novel apparatus constructed according to my in vention.

Figure 2 is a side view thereof.

Figure 3 is a cross section on line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a cross section on line 4- 4 of v Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a perspective detail view of the cutting device.

Figure 6 is a section through the shaper on line 66 of Figure 1.

Figure 7 shows in detail of one view of the shaper frames.

The apparatus comprises table com posed of a pair of rails 10, 10 resting on rear posts 11, 11 and a front post 12 having its upper end forked as at 13 and 14.

On rails 10 and 10 a carriage 15 is running on wheels 16, 17 connected byan axle 18, and carrying a bottom plate 19 provided with a plurality of perforations 21 The carriage is moved by means of a hand grip or handle 21 and pipes 22, 3 prrwided with perforations in their upper to. are

connected by means of flexible conduits 25 and 26 to any suitable source of moisteniur; tiuid, while valves27 regulate the supply of fluid from said source 5 The rearward movement of thecarriage is limited by shoulders 28 on rails 10, 10' while the forward movement is limited by stops 29, and the upwardly curved rear endsof rails 10 and 11 carry a supporting plate 30. The pipes 22 and 23 are held against the underside of plate 19 by means of suitable brackets 31 and are moreover soldered to said plate as indicated at 32, Figure 4. p The table is also perforated and a pipe is supplying moisture thereto which is supplied to the plate by means of a flexible hose conduit 34.

The plastic mass is supplied under pres sure to the shaper 35 in the usual manner forming no part of the present. invention and is kept moist by means of a fluid supplied to the shaper 35 from a faucet 36 through a funnel 37,having a perforated bottom plate 38.

The former 35 is funnel-shaped tapering towards one end and carries in its interior a plurality of frames 39 diminishing in size towards this end.

The bottom plate 19 is provided with a plurality of transverse recesses 40, and the plate 15 carries at its outer edge two eyes 41 and 42 in which is rotatably guided a bar 43 having a rectangularly bent arm 44 provided with inner pins 45 and 46 cooperating with curved slots 47 and 48 of the end plate 49 of the carriage for acting as spacers to determine the length of the brick next to end plate 49, while a stop 50 limits the downward movement. of arm 44. The upper end of arm 44 carries a bar 51 rectangularly disposed to said arm, and formed with a handle 52.

Hooks 53 and 54 are secured to bar 51 and hooks 55 and 56 are extended through bar 43 and their outer ends carry wing nuts 57 and 58. Strong wire strings or cables 51 and 60 are secured with one of their ends to books 54 and respectively, while their other ends are secured tohooks 55 and 56 respectively.

The device operates as follows:

The brick press presses the plastic material through the shaper 35 upon plate 3 and if now the carriage is moved by means of the handle first in one direction to abut with its bottom plate 19, plate "30, the material will be drawn upon said plate in the form of a long strip while the carriage is moved away from plate 30 until the material reaches the end plate 49 which is shown in a horizontal position in Figure 2 in order to facilitate the removal of the bricks. lVhen the press is stopped, handle 51 is depressed to cut the material 61 by means of the wires 59 and 60 into two bricks 652, whereupon the operation is repeated.

If the material is getting too dry moisture is admitted in, the necessary degree through funnel 37 3S, and. in order to prevent a sticking of the n'i'ass, a fluid is supplied in the desired or required quantity through flexible hose 3%., 2:rand 26 respectively. I

It will be clear that changes can be made in the general arrangement and the construction of the minor details of my invention without deviating from the scope and spirit thereof.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is- In a machine of the class described, a

shaper, a carriage adapted to receive the material from said shaper, an end board on said carriage provided with curved slots, a frame having one of its arms rotatably guided in eyes on said carriage, a second arm of said frame provided with pins guided in said curved slots for acting as spacers to determine the length of the brick next to said end board, a handle connected with said second arm, hooks on said handle and said rotatable bar, cables secured with their respective ends to said handle hooks and said bar hooks, a stop for said second arm and wing nuts at the outer ends of the hooks on said bar for tauteningsaid cables, a recessed, perforated bottom plate on said carriage, said cables adapted to cut the ma terial supplied to said carriage from said shaper ano to enter the recess of said bottom plate, and means for supplying moisture to said perforated bottom plate.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

ADAM BOOTRYM. 

